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Erika Biagini

Contact Details

Assistant Professor

T:01 700 6204

E:erika.biagini@dcu.ie

Erika Biagini is Assistant Professor in Security Studies in the School of Law and Government at Dublin City University. Her area of expertise lies at the intersection of Islamism, gender and politics. She lived extensively in Egypt, where she conducted research on the Muslim Brotherhood and the activism of its female members, the Muslim Sisterhood, in the aftermath of the 2011 uprising. Her current research interests address the areas of subjectivity, identity and feminist politics among Islamist women activists, the gender politics and sexuality of Islamist movements and the evolution of Islamism, and of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood in particular, since the 2013 repression.

She has published extensively on these subjects and her work appeared in international peer reviewed journals such as Mediterranean Politics, the International Feminist Journal of Politics, Egypte/Monde Arabe, Partecipazione e Conflitto, Middle East Law and Governance, Religions. Erika is a member of the Middle East Law and Governance Advisory Board and Editor of the Middle East Law and Governance Blog. She is also a member of the Irish Network for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, the Middle East Studies Association and the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies.

In DCU she teaches courses on research methodologies, international security, gender and politics.

Peer Reviewed Journal

	Year	Publication
	2022	Biagini, Erika; Ardovini, Lucia (2022) 'Struggle Is Our Way: Assessing the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood's Relationship with Violence Post-2013'. Religions, 13 (2). [Link] [DOI]
	2021	Erika Biagini [with Lucia Ardovini] (2021) '10 Years On: New Contextual Factors in the Study of Islamism'. Middle East Critique, 30 (4).
	2021	Biagini, E. (2021) 'What’S Love Got To Do With It? Women, The Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood And Organisational Identity'. Partecipazione e Conflitto, 14 . [Link] [DOI]
	2021	Erika Biagini (2021) 'Women and the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood post-2013: Calls for Gender Reforms and Pluralism'. Middle East Law and Governance, 13 (2):171-195. https://doi.org/10.1163/18763375-13020004
	2021	Erika Biagini [with Lucia Ardovini] (2021) 'Introduction to the Special Issue: “Assessing the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood after the 2013 coup: Tracing Trajectories of Continuity and Change”'. Middle East Law and Governance, 13 (2):125-129. https://doi.org/10.1163/18763375-13020007
	2020	Erika Biagini (2020) 'The Participation of the Muslim Sisters in Institutional Politics after the Arab Uprisings (2011-2013)'. :37-55. https://doi.org/10.4000/ema.11592
	2020	Biagini, E. (2020) 'Islamist women’s feminist subjectivities in (r)evolution: the Egyptian Muslim Sisterhood in the aftermath of the Arab uprisings'. International Feminist Journal of Politics, 22 . [Link] [DOI]
	2017	Erika Biagini (2017) 'The Egyptian Muslim Sisterhood Between Violence, Activism and Leadership'. Mediterranean Politics, 22 (1):35-53. https://doi.org/10.1080/13629395.2016.1230943

Other Journal

	Year	Publication
	2020	Erika Biagini [with Paola Rivetti] (2020) '“State Repression and Activist Organizing in Informal Spaces: Comparing Feminist Movements in Egypt and Iran,” MENA Politics Newsletter 3, No. 2, pp. 31-36' . [Link]

Book Chapter

	Year	Publication
	2024	(2024) 'Islamist Women's Mobilization and Agency in the Arab Uprisings and Their Aftermath in Egypt' In: Women, Agency and Religion Social and Legal Issues in the Mediterranean Public Space. Routledge : Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003534525
	2018	Erika Biagini (2018) 'The Egyptian Muslim Sisterhood between Violence, Activism and Leadership' In: Islamism and Social Movements in North Africa, the Sahel and Beyond: Transregional and Local Perspectives. UK : Routledge.

Book Review

	Year	Publication
	2018	Erika Biagini (2018) Islamists and the politics of the Arab uprisings: governance, pluralisation and contention. BREV

Conference Contribution

	Year	Publication
	2021	Erika Biagini (2021) Women, Religion, and Politics in the Middle East: Negotiating Marginalization and Representation Islamist Women’s Responses to Sexual and Gender Based Violence in Egypt Agnes Scott College & Women Living under Muslim Laws (WLUML), .
	2021	Erika Biagini and Lucia Ardovini (2021) Middle East Studies Association Assessing Islamist Movements’ Responses to Repression: a Meso-Level Analysis of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood Montreal, .
	2020	Erika Biagini (2020) Middle East Studies Association What’s love got to do with it? Women, the Muslim Brotherhood and organizational identity Washington DC, .
	2020	Erika Biagini (2020) Irish Network for Middle Eastern and North African Studies A Decade of Research on Islamist Women in Egypt Ireland, .
	2020	Erika Biagini (2020) Women’s Rights in Rape Trials A Middle Eastern and North African Perspective to Secondary Victimization in Cases of SGBV Ireland, .
	2020	Erika Biagini (2020) Gender, Activism and Subjectivity in Contention and Conflict Workshop Dublin City University, .
	2020	Erika Biagini (2020) Women and Islam: Beyond Activism A Decade of Islamist Women’s Resistance in Egypt Centre d'Études et de Documentation Économiques, Juridiques et Sociales (CEDEJ), .
	2020	Erika Biagini and Paola Rivetti (2020) Women and Gender in MENA: Opportunities and Challenges Informal Spaces for Activism and Radical Protests: Comparing Feminist Movements in Egypt and Iran USA, .
	2020	Erika Biagini (2020) 10 Years on: The People and the Protests What’s Love Got to do With It? Women, the Muslim Brotherhood and Organizational Identity Sectarianism, Proxies and De-sectarianisation (SEPAD) Conference, .
	2020	Erika Biagini (2020) Middle East Studies Association Assessing the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood after the 2013 coup: Tracing Trajectories of Continuity and Change Washington DC, .
	2019	Erika Biagini (2019) Middle East Studies Association Mapping the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood’s Internal Divisions after 2013 New Orleans; USA, .
	2019	Erika Biagini (2019) British Society for Middle Eastern Studies. Joining the Dots: New Approaches to Studying the Middle East Panel Organiser. Panel Title: Stagnation VS. Adaptation: tracking the evolution of the Muslim Brotherhood’s strategies and ideology since the 2013 coup Leeds; UK, .
	2019	Erika Biagini (2019) Political Studies Association of Ireland The Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood amid sustained regime repression: organisational stagnation or reform? Maynooth, Ireland, .
	2018	Erika Biagini (2018) Dynamiques Religieuses Feminines en Egypte: Quelle Formes d'Engagement The Political Participation of the Muslim Sisterhood under the Muslim Brotherhood Government (2012-2013) Cairo, .
	2018	Erika Biagini (2018) World Congress of Middle Eastern Studies Islamist Feminist Subjectivities in R-Evolution Seville, .
	2018	Erika Biagini (2018) British Society for Middle Eastern Studies Young Muslim Sisterhood on Democracy: Reflections from Egypt London, .
	2017	erika biagini (2017) The Unmaking of the Middle East: Thinking through the Crisis Workshop Sussex, UK, .
	2014	erika biagini (2014) Political Islam in the Middle East and West Africa The Egyptian Muslim Sisterhood post the 2013 Military Coup: Between Repression, Violence and Activism Laval University, .
	2013	erika biagini (2013) “Rethinking Gender in Revolution and Resistance A Contemporary Overview of Women’s Activism in the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood: New Spaces, Old Discourses Centre for the Study of Women and Gender, University of Warwick, UK, .
	2013	erika biagini (2013) British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES) Explaining Female Support for Islamist Parties: Beyond Feminist Narratives Dublin, Ireland, .

Book Review

	Year	Publication
	2022	(2022) Surviving Repression: The Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood after the 2013 Coup By Lucia Ardovini. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2022. 168 pp., £ 80.00, cloth, ISBN 978-1-5261-4929-9. Politics and Religion, 15(4), 850-853. doi:10.1017/S1755048322000359. [DOI]

Education

Start date	Institution	Qualification	Subject
10/10/2017	Dublin City University	PhD	Politics and International Relations
10/10/2012	Dublin City University	MA	Politics and International Relations
10/05/2008	Universita' Di Roma La Sapienza	BA	Economics for International Cooperation, Development and Peace

Research Interests

Islamism, gender and politics, social movements, authoritarianism, Middle East and North Africa, security, intelligence, intelligence analysis, qualitative research methodologies.

Modules Coordinated

Term	Title	Subject
2022	Intelligence and Security Analysis: Theory and Practice	LG5030
2022	Intelligence Nat Security & Foreign Policy	LG244
2021	Intelligence and Security Analysis: Theory and Practice	LG5030
2021	Intelligence National Security and Foreign Policy	LG244
2020	Intelligence&Security Analysis:Theory & Pract	LG5030
2020	International Security: Critical Approaches	LG5029
2019	Core Skills and Methods for International Relations	LG122
2018	Core Skills and Methods for International Relations	LG122